Images of Southern folk musicians shine brightly in the paintings of Art Rosenbaum, a Georgia-based artist, musician and folk music collector.

What's more, in 2008, he won a Grammy award for his collection "Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum." It won in the Best Historical Album category.

Why is this of local interest? Glimpses of the artist's raw, vivid imagination are hanging at a gallery near you.

Through Nov. 8, Rosenbaum's work will be on display through "Temporal Distortions: Artists Working in the Contemporary South," a dual-site exhibit at the Art House and Linda Matney Gallery, both in Williamsburg.

At least eight of Rosenbaum's paintings are part of the exhibit, most of them at the Art House which is located 412 N. Boundary St.

Linda Matney Gallery curator John Lee Matney said he became aware of Rosenbaum's work while a student at University of Georgia in Athens. "I knew he was an important artist who I was intrigued by ... I've always been interested in old recordings and rare music, so I though he would be a good fit for the show."

At the Art House, collections of Rosenbaum's field recordings will be on sale. Also, a film documentary the artist made about Southern folk musicians will be screened by request.

Art Rosenbaum, born in 1938 in Ogdensberg, NY, is a painter, muralist, and illustrator, as well as a collector and performer of traditional American folk music. He earned his MFA in Painting at Columbia University and has worked in France on a Fulbright in Painting; he also has a Fulbright Senior Professorship in Germany. Among his exhibitions was the Corcoran's 41st Biennial of American Painting, and his works are in many collections, including the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Columbus (GA) Museum.

He has executed mural commissions at the UCLA School of Law and the Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia. His solo show in 2000 at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York was reviewed in Art in America.

His folk music field work in the South and Midwest has resulted in over 14 documentary recordings, several of which are on Smithsonian-Folkways; he wrote and illustrated two books, Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia (1983), and Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition on the Coast of Georgia (1998), both published by the University of Georgia Press.

A performer on a variety of folk instruments, he has appeared at numerous folk festivals both solo and with groups like the present-day Skillet Lickers, has cut three banjo/vocal LPs and CDs, and has written and illustrated two instruction books on traditional banjo styles.

He is Wheatley Professor in Fine Arts at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia and in 2003 was a recipient of a Governor of Georgia's Award in the Humanities.